DeFi Researcher
You'll join a team building DeFi infrastructure that reimagines how on-chain liquidity strategies are handled. You'll research and apply extensive knowledge across TradFi and DeFi to execute state-of-the-art risk curation and yield optimization across the DeFi ecosystem. You'll work closely with DeFi engineers to manage yield generating opportunities, design algorithms, and build frameworks that keep users safe while maximizing returns. You'll monitor market data continuously, forecasting risk and designing triggers to capture opportunistic strategies or exit before black swan events hit the broader market.
Responsibilities
- Manage a portfolio of yield generating opportunities across protocols and chains
- Collaborate closely with DeFi engineers on execution
- Manage algorithm design and backtesting to produce actionable insights for DeFi portfolio management
- Create frameworks for risk analysis and portfolio optimization
- Monitor data and forecast risk
- Design triggers to enter opportunistic strategies or exit black swan events before the market
Requirements
- Deep knowledge of risk management, financial and statistical concepts to measure risk and optimal portfolio management
- Deep knowledge of DeFi protocols including liquid staking protocols (Lido, EtherFi, Kinetiq), AMMs (Uniswap, Balancer), lending protocols (Aave, Morpho Blue, Maple, Term Finance), perp DEXs (Hyperliquid, Lighter, GMX), and auctions/RFQs/routers (CoW Protocol, UniswapX, 1inch Fusion, Hashflow)
- Familiarity with data engineering
- Experience managing a book in TradFi or DeFi across equities, tokens, loan books, or other types of strategies
- Experience applying rigorous statistical methods to portfolio analysis